Kevin Malaga is named in what will be a young Coventry City side that takes on Nottingham Forest at the Alan Higgs Centre today.
Teams: Coventry City: Burge, Smith, Donald, Henderson, Malaga, Cameron, Roberts, Lawton, Garner, Wiseman, Rankin.
Subs: Baker- Richardson, Fagan, Fletcher, Maund, Finch.
Nottingham Forest: Etimov, Gregory, Andrews, Morgan, Fenton, Regan, Papworth, Blake, Guedioro, Ferrier, Osborn.
Subs: Hollingsworth, Smith, Gnahore, Gorman, Palmer-Samuels.
Greg Rioch is in charge of the Coventry City team today.
The match is underway.
2: Roberts makes a good break but fires his shot wide.
4: Guedioro fires a shot over the bar for Forest.
7: Garner tries his luck from 20 yards out, but his shot goes agonisingly wide of the far post.
8: Forest go on the attack down the left and Blake latches onto a good cross but shoots into the side netting.
13: Forest's Morgan has a long range effort go wide.
15: Rankin fires his shot over the bar for City.
16: Forest win a corner. With the 'keeper beaten, Malaga heads the ball clear from close to the goal line.
18: A great tackle from Coventry's Jordan Smith concedes a corner.
20: Rankine played in Nathan cameron who ran forward and got in a shot which Etimov in the Forest goal did well to get down to and save.
22: Donald gets in a good header to clear from a Forest corner.
26: A low drive from Morgan from 30 yards out is comfortably saved by Burge in the City goal.
30: GOAL: Forest take the lead when David Morgan gets through and beats Burge with a low shot into the bottom corner.
32: Donald clears a cross as Forest pile on the pressure.
40: With five minutes of the first half reamaining, Nottingham Forest still lead 1-0.
42: Burge get down well to smother a low cross.
44: Burge is in action again, this time he saves a Blake 25 yarder.
45: The referee blows for half time.
HALF TIME: Coventry City U21 0 Nottingham Forest U21 1 (Morgan).
46: Substitutions: Malaga is taken off and replaced by Baker-Richardson.
Henderson and Donald are both defending well.
51:Guerdiora dives over Burge and is denied a penalty, but Burge then saves well from Papworth.
55: Baker-Richardson has a good cross cleared away.
57: Burge is called into action again and once again he makes a good save.
Play is stopped temporarily after Guedioro is hit in the middle wicket and is bowled over. Not too sure if the magic sponge will be of much help with this injury.
62: Substitution; Lawton goes off to be replaced by Maund which now means City are playing a 4-3-3 formation.
65: Substitution; Guediora is replaced by Palmer.
Ben Maund, who has just come on for City, volleys over the bar.
70:GOAL. Forest go 2-0 up when Ben Osborn scores with a powefully hit left footed drive from five yards out.
73: Ferrier curls a shot wide for Forest.
74: Substitution. Coventry's Wiseman is replaced by Finch.
80: With ten minutes left to go, Forest still lead by 2-0.
83: Substitution, Forest replace Papworth with Gnahore.
88: Substitution. Forest take off Gregory and replace him with Gorman.
90: The referee bring the game to an end.
FULL TIME: Coventry City U21 0 Nottingham Forest U21 2 (Morgan, Osborn)